[Buddha-l] news about dating the Afghan Bamian Buddhas

jkirk jkirk at spro.net
Wed Dec 6 17:58:33 MST 2006


http://tinyurl.com/ydoon3
>From Ruins of Afghan Buddhas, a History Grows

"...carbon dating of fragments of the plaster surface of the Buddhas was 
able to pinpoint the construction of the smaller one to 507, and the larger 
one to 554. Previous estimates had varied over 200 years.".......[more] 



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